Author: Charles BeecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A Review of the "Spiritual Manifestations." Read Before the Congregational Association of New York and Brooklyn
Author: Charles BeecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A Review of the "spiritual Manifestations"
Author: Charles BeecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible and spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A Review of the"Spiritual Manifestations,"etc
Author: Charles BEECHERSpirit Rapping Unveiled!
Author: Hiram MattisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Supernatural Entertainments
Author: Simone NatalePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271077379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.
A New Basis of Belief in Immortality
Author: John S. FarmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immortality
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Journal of Progress
Author: The Spiritual Magazine
Author: The Specter of the Indian
Author: Kathryn TroyPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438466099
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Explores the significance of Indian control spirits as a dominating force in nineteenth-century American Spiritualism. The Specter of the Indian unveils the centrality of Native American spirit guides during the emergent years of American Spiritualism. By pulling together cultural and political history; the studies of religion, race, and gender; and the ghostly, Kathryn Troy offers a new layer of understanding to the prevalence of mystically styled Indians in American visual and popular culture. The connections between Spiritualist print and contemporary Indian policy provide fresh insight into the racial dimensions of social reform among nineteenth-century Spiritualists. Troy draws fascinating parallels between the contested belief of Indians as fading from the world, claims of returned apparitions, and the social impetus to provide American Indians with a means of existence in white America. Rather than vanishing from national sight and memory, Indians and their ghosts are shown to be ever present. This book transports the readers into dimly lit parlor rooms and darkened cabinets and lavishes them with detailed séance accounts in the words of those who witnessed them. Scrutinizing the otherworldly whisperings heard therein highlights the voices of mediums and those they sought to channel, allowing the author to dig deep into Spiritualist belief and practice. The influential presence of Indian ghosts is made clear and undeniable.
Author: Francis STARR